Researchers Turned “Empty Space” Into a Tool for Superconductivity
Schematic of vacuum-fluctuation-enhanced superconductivity. Credit: USTC Researchers used a specially designed cavity to strengthen quantum vacuum fluctuations and…
A Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt project combining acoustics, MEG and fMRI found that humans can actually hear sounds below the assumed 16-hertz lower limit of audibility, and that the auditory cortex lights up in response to infrasound the ear was long thought to ignore entirely
Human hearing does not end at a hard wall marked 16 or 20 hertz. Sensitivity falls sharply as…
Venus looks pale yellow from space, but modelling suggests that if the liquid inside its cloud droplets were collected into a container, it could appear almost black—the unidentified absorber must be extraordinarily powerful, highly concentrated, or both.
Venus is a pale yellow world in ordinary visible light. In ultraviolet images, however, its upper clouds are…
While a human operator reacts to a fusion plasma in seconds and its instabilities grow in thousandths of one, a controller ran a San Diego tokamak’s six microwave heaters 50 times a second, called a magnetic tear 200 milliseconds early and put current where it would have formed
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 The PACMAN controller running on a real tokamak isn’t a chatbot bolted onto a press release —…
Oxford Physicists Help Uncover ‘Spooky’ Quantum Effect in The Large Hadron Collider
Insider Brief ATLAS researchers found strong evidence of quantum entanglement between pairs of short-lived Z bosons produced by…
USC And Quantum Elements’ Error Correction Technique Demonstrates Surface Code Scaling with Logical Qubits
USC And Quantum Elements’ Error Correction Technique Demonstrates Surface Code Scaling with Logical Qubits
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Scientists Turn Sunlight Into Quantum Entanglement
Using a new cone-shaped solar concentrator, researchers showed that sunlight can be used to create entangled photons. This…
Bay Area scientists investigate possible dark matter signal deep underground
A mile beneath the surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, a single unknown particle…
Penn Researchers Demonstrate Room-Temperature Diamond System That Entangles Four Qubits 10 Times Faster
Insider Brief Researchers entangled four qubits in a room-temperature diamond system about 10 times faster than with a…
A Quantum Computer Could Make Electron Microscopes Far More Powerful
An electron microscope capable of performing quantum computing operations using built-in ion traps. Credit: TU Wien A new…
An algorithm to generate two-dimensional critical lattice models using competing anyon condensation
Bernard, D. & Felder, G. Quantum group symmetries in 2-D lattice quantum field theory. Nucl. Phys. B 365,…
CERN Detects Quantum Entanglement in Particles Born From The Higgs Boson : ScienceAlert
Something spooky has been spotted in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In the cascade of debris that sprays out…